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minus-squareTanoh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThere is a reason clickbait images and titles are used, they work. If they didn’t work, no one would use them.
minus-squareeskimofry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoYou must think marketing is made of infallible geniuses. Just because it exists doesn’t make it good.
minus-squareHughJanus@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoclickbait is unreasonably effective
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoNobody said “good”, but if it keeps existing, it works or at least isn’t harmful. Bit like evolution.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoOr there are people with an interest in keeping it that way. I don’t think there’s any big conspiracy about YouTube titles, but let’s not pretend thing like wealth inequality still exist because they’re not harmful.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoWhat “interest” would they have to keep it that way if it wasn’t working? Wealth inequality exists because it works for the people who have the power to control it. In a way, it’s not harmful ENOUGH to change evolutionarily.
minus-squareRodeo@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoAre you serious? You literally answered your own question with the very next sentence.
There is a reason clickbait images and titles are used, they work. If they didn’t work, no one would use them.
You must think marketing is made of infallible geniuses. Just because it exists doesn’t make it good.
clickbait is unreasonably effective
Nobody said “good”, but if it keeps existing, it works or at least isn’t harmful. Bit like evolution.
Or there are people with an interest in keeping it that way.
I don’t think there’s any big conspiracy about YouTube titles, but let’s not pretend thing like wealth inequality still exist because they’re not harmful.
What “interest” would they have to keep it that way if it wasn’t working?
Wealth inequality exists because it works for the people who have the power to control it. In a way, it’s not harmful ENOUGH to change evolutionarily.
Are you serious? You literally answered your own question with the very next sentence.